Complexity & Analysis of Data Structures & Algorithms

1. Complexity & Analysis of Data Structures & Algorithms Piyush Kumar (Lecture 1: Introduction) Welcome to COP4531 Based on slides from J. Edmonds, S. Rudich, S. H. Teng, K. Wayne and my old slides.

2. Today • My Info : Timings for the class • References • Pre-Requisites Survey • How you will be graded • Syllabus • About Advanced Algorithms • and its applications • Our First Problem • Stable Matching

3. Instructor Piyush Kumar 161 Love Building Ph: 850-645-2355 Web page: http://piyush.compgeom.com Office Hours: Tuesday (before class) 1:45pm to 2:45pm Email: piyush at acm dot org

4. Class/Exam Timings • Timings • Tuesday , Thursday • ( 12:30pm – 1:45pm ) Love 301 • Midterm: • See course handout/webpage • Final Exam • See course handout/webpage

5. Other Details • Course web site: • http://piyush.compgeom.com/teach/4531 • Textbook.

6. References • Klienberg / Tardos • Algorithm Design • Other References • [CLRS] T. Cormen, C. Leiserson, R. Rivest, and C. Stein.Introduction to Algorithms (2nd edition). • My slides and notes

7. PreReq • Data Structures • Introduction to Probability (STA 4442/STA 3032) • Any other substitute classes? • C++ / [Python] • Discrete Mathematics II (MAD 3105) or • Mathematics in Computing (MAD 3107) • Basic Math skills • Lots of Time… • ToDo List: • Get a LinProg Account • Get a copy of the text book.

8. PreReq • COP 4530 or higher (What this class does not cover) • Linked Lists, Stacks. • Binary Trees, Heaps. • STL, containers/iterators. • Mathematical Induction / Contradiction • Basic Probability/Expectations.

9. What can you expect? • After the course expect to • Know more about algorithms (of course) • Think algorithmically • Know how to solve real world algorithmic problems • Both in theory (algorithm) and practice (code) • Be better at applications that require algorithms: • and apply algorithms to places you never imagined…

10. Grading* • Homework : 20% • Programming Project: 15 % • Class Participation : 5% • Surprise Quizzes: 10% • Midterm : 20% • Final Exam : 30%

11. Designing Algorithms How to do well in this class?

12. Nope! Doing Well in this class. • Study in Groups • Assignments are done in pairs • Also Learn from one another.

13. Do not get answers from others. Do not do half the assignment and let ur partner do the other half Try all questions on your own. Discuss solutions together but write them independently. Short solutions are better than longer ones!

14. <Blah><Blah> Correct <Blah><Blah> Correct lines hidden in wrong lines are not correct. Think before you write.

15. A few years from now. May I have a letter of reference? Its awkward for me to write letters for people that I don’t recognize. Make yourself known to SOME professor. Email does not help as I am very bad at remembering names.

16. Expectations • Work hard and learn/understand the material well. • Feel free to ask questions. • Take help from me and the TA. • Course Load: 4-6 hours a week (assumes you are getting help).

17. Thinking about Algorithms

18. Be Creative • Ask questions • Why is this done this way and not that way? • Guess potential methods to solve the problem • Look forcounterexamples. • Start Day dreaming:Allow the essence of the materialto seepinto your subconscious.

19. Boss assigns task. • Given today’s prices of pork, grain, sawdust, … • Given constraints on what constitutes a hotdog. • Make the cheapest hotdog Everyday industry asks these questions.

20. Your Answer: • Tell me what to code. With more suffocated software engineering systems,the demand for mundane programmers will diminish.

21. Your Answer: • I learnt this great algorithm that will work. Soon all known algorithms will be available in libraries

22. Your answer: • I can develop a new algorithm for you. Great thinkers will always be needed.

23. Course Content • A list of algorithms. • Learn their code. • Trace them until you are convinced that they work. • Implement them. • Worry about details. class InsertionSortAlgorithm : public SortAlgorithm { void sort(int a[]) { for (int i = 1; i < a.length; i++) { int j = i; int B = a[i]; while ((j > 0) && (a[j-1] > B)) { a[j] = a[j-1]; j--;} a[j] = B; }}

24. Course Content • A survey of algorithmic design techniques. • Abstract thinking. • How to develop new algorithms for any problem that may arise.

25. Syllabus* • Asymptotic Analysis and Recursions • Graph Algorithms • Greedy Algorithms • Divide and Conquer • Dynamic Programming • Network Flows • Complexity Classes and Approximation Algorithms • Computational Geometry • Parallel Algorithms * Tentative

26. Stable Marriage Our first problem

27. WARNING: This lecture contains mathematical content that may be shocking to some students.

28. The problem • There are n men and n women • Each man has a preference list, so does the woman. • These lists have no ties. • Devise a system by which each of the n men and n women can end up getting married.

29. Other Similar problems • Given a set of colleges and students pair them. (Internship – Company assignments) • Given airlines and pilots, pair them. • Given two images, pair the points belonging to the same point in 3D to extract depth from the two images. • Dorm room assignments. • Hospital residency assignments**.

30. Stereo Matching Fact: If one knows the distance between the cameras And the matching, its almost trivial to recover depth..

31. A Good matching/pairing • Maximize the number of people who get their first match? • Maximize the av? • Maximize the minimum satisfaction? • Can anything go wrong?

32. Example Preference Lists Man 1st 2nd 3rd Woman 1st 2nd 3rd X A B C A Y X Z Y B A C B X Y Z Z A B C C X Y Z What goes wrong? Unstable pairs: (X,C) and (B,Y) They prefer each other to current pairs.

33. Stable Matching Man 1st 2nd 3rd Woman 1st 2nd 3rd X A B C A Y X Z Y B A C B X Y Z Z A B C C X Y Z No Pairs creating instability.

34. Another Stable Matching Man 1st 2nd 3rd Woman 1st 2nd 3rd X A B C A Y X Z Y B A C B X Y Z Z A B C C X Y Z

35. Stability is Primary. • Any reasonable list of criteria must contain the stability criterion. • A pairing is doomed if it contains a shaky couple.

36. Main Idea Idea: Allow the pairs to keep breaking up and reforming until they become stable Can you argue that the couples will not continue breaking up and reforming forever?

37. Men Propose (Women dispose) Initialize each person to be free. while (some man m is free and hasn't proposed to every woman) w = first woman on m's list to whom m has not yet proposed if (w is free) assign m and w to be engaged else if (w prefers m to her fiancé m') assign m and w to be engaged, and m' to be free else w rejects m Gale-Shapley Algorithm (men propose)

38. Analysis • Does the algorithm terminate? • Running time? • Space requirement?

39. Improvement Lemma • Improvement Lemma: If a woman has a committed suitor, then she will always have someone at least as good, from that point in time onwards (and on the termination of the algorithm).

40. Corollary : Improvement Lemma • Each woman will marry her absolute favorite of the men who proposed to her.

41. Demotion Lemma • The sequence of women to whom m proposes gets worse and worse (in terms of his preference list)

42. Lemma 1 • No Man can be rejected by all the Women. • Proof: ?? Contradiction • Suppose Bob is rejected by all the women. • At that point: • Each women must have a suitor other than Bob (By Improvement Lemma, once a woman has a suitor she will always have at least one) • The n women have n suitors, Bob not among them. • Thus, there must be at least n+1 men !

43. Corollary: Lemma 1 • If m is free at some point in the execution of the algorithm, then there is a woman to whom he has not yet proposed.

44. Corollary: Lemma 1 • The algorithm returns a matching. (Since no man is free?) • The algorithm returns a perfect matching. (Since there is no free man?)

45. Lemma 2 • Consider the execution of the G-S algorithm that returns a set of pairs S. The set S is a stable matching. • Proof?

46. Luke Bob Alice Mia Lemma 2Proof by contradiction Unstable pair : Bob and Mia • This means Bob likes Mia more than his partner, Alice. • Thus, Bob proposed to Mia before he proposed to Alice. • Mia must have rejected Bob for someone she preferred. • By the Improvement lemma, she must like her parnter Luke more than Bob.

47. Question! Who is better off, the men or the women?

48. A woman w is a valid partner of a man m if there is a Stable matching that contains (m,w). A man’s optimal match or best valid partner is the highest ranked woman for whom there is some stable pairing in which they are matched She is the best woman he can conceivably be matched in a stable world. Presumably, she might be better than the woman he gets matched to in the stable pairing output by GS. Best (Valid?) Parter for Bob? • Best woman for “Bob”? • The woman at the top of Bob’s list?

49. Example • M { w, w’ } • M’ { w’ , w } • W { m’ , m } • W’ { m , m’ } Two stable matchings: (m,w) (m’,w’) Or (m’,w) (m,w’)

50. Worst Valid Partner Match. • A Man’s worst valid partner is the lowest ranked woman in his preference list that is a valid partner.